To Your Health: Planning Healthy Goals for the Entire Family

There is a lot of work that goes into keeping a family healthy. Just keeping track of the annual pediatric check ups, the dentist appointments every 6 months, and maybe even a trip to the optometrist is a job in itself. If you have added in an after-school activity such as swim lessons or basketball, it’s no wonder it may feels like there is little time for setting healthy goals for kids and the family.

But goals are a great opportunity to help kids learn the importance of healthier food choices and being active by encouraging kids to set healthy goals! Make planning healthy goals a family discussion. Kids need to be part of the discussion so that they feel involved and will feel more committed to working on the healthy goal.

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Helping your kids make healthy food choices has become a lot more difficult since the push to reduce fat in their diets. It is in fact sugar that is causing the alarming obesity problem. High Fructose Corn Syrup is in almost everything, not just the stuff you normally think of as sweet. It is a poison. Dr. Lustig a doctor who specializes in childhood obesity has a video recording out of a study he did on how HFCS is affecting our kids. You can see that, and my rant on why you shouldn't give your kids soda (or drink it yourself) over at http://www.nutritionprogramsonline.net/soda-consumption/

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